"That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he...
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"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
"Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of hi...
"Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...
"As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is hi...
"You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such ...
"He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was hea...
"Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You’ve wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any...
"Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to ...
"Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, ...
"You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives ru...
"When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he ...
"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
"It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your e...
"This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this mo...